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About the Role
The New York Botanical Garden seeks a thoughtful, highly organized, and mission-driven WILD Student Researcher and Designer to support a two-year professional development initiative. This role serves as a research, evaluation, and program-design partner, primarily supporting the Seeds of Growth program and gathering evidence to ensure responsiveness to staff needs. The position is well suited to a graduate student combining applied research and analysis with strong writing, facilitation, project coordination, and discretion.
Responsibilities
- Support the WILD Project Lead in coordinating the Seeds of Growth microgrant cycle, including proposal timelines, applicant communications, informational materials, submission tracking, review logistics, award documentation, and follow-up.
- Maintain project plans, timelines, trackers, files, and quarterly check-in records for Seeds of Growth projects.
- Prepare templates, guidance, and practical tools to help department teams define learning needs, articulate outcomes, document implementation, and share learnings.
- Help design and administer surveys, interview protocols, focus group guides, pulse checks, and other feedback tools.
- Conduct and document selected interviews, listening sessions, focus groups, and project check-ins with professionalism and confidentiality.
- Collect, clean, organize, and analyze qualitative and quantitative information.
- Identify themes, patterns, participation gaps, and actionable findings, and translate evidence into concise summaries, briefings, presentations, and recommendations.
- Document selected Seeds of Growth projects as practical case examples and reusable resources.
- Support the Seeds of Growth end-of-project showcase and collaborate with the WILD Student Instructional Designer.
- Maintain accurate research files, evidence logs, project documentation, and grant-supported time records; handle information with care and discretion.
Requirements
- Current enrollment in a graduate program in organizational development, learning sciences, evaluation, social or behavioral research, human-centered design, public administration, museum studies, education, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience conducting or supporting qualitative and/or quantitative research, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, data organization, analysis, and concise reporting.
- Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear summaries, presentations, recommendations, and practical resources for nontechnical audiences.
- Strong organizational and project coordination skills, including the ability to manage multiple timelines, follow-up items, records, and stakeholder communications.
- Ability to facilitate or support respectful conversations with staff and managers across varied roles and to gather feedback.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Teams.
- Demonstrated attention to data quality, documentation, confidentiality, and responsible stewardship of internal information.
- Experience with program evaluation, organizational learning, employee experience, change management, or applied research in a mission-driven setting preferred.
- Interest in workforce development, equitable access to professional learning, digital literacy, and responsible use of emerging technologies, including AI, preferred.
Skills
- Qualitative research
- Quantitative research
- Survey administration
- Interviewing
- Focus groups
- Data organization
- Data analysis
- Report writing
- Writing
- Editing
- Communication
- Synthesizing complex information
- Presentation development
- Project coordination
- Facilitation
- Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Teams)
- Microsoft Forms
- Qualtrics
- Power BI
- Tableau
- SPSS
- R
- Program evaluation
- Organizational learning
- Employee experience
- Change management
- Workforce development
- Digital literacy
- AI
Location
- New York, NY
- Remote (partial)
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Graduate student level
Education Level
- Current enrollment in a graduate program
Salary/Compensations
- $30 per hour
Benefits
- Some approved remote work
About the Company
- The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a leading national institution dedicated to the conservation, study, and display of plants and botanical collections.
- The Workforce Innovation and Leadership Development (WILD) initiative is a two-year professional development initiative funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums Empowered program.
- NYBG is a mission-driven cultural institution.
Equal Opportunity
- EOE